...this week, and precious little has been spent playing in the studio. I've been scanning reams of photos from decades past, learning more than I ever wanted to know about running a condo assocation (as I've taken on the presidency of same this past week), and only yesterday got a chance to throw some paint. Given that it was Golden High Flow, though, it was satisfying to the max to see it run, pool and play on the 20 x 16 textured surface I started some weeks back.
Win Dinn Art, Etc.
Thursday 14 March 2024
Time has gone flashing by...
Thursday 7 March 2024
The photo/document sort...
...and purge continues. This week I've been ironing documents (and there's a phrase I never expected to use). A small suitcase, well over a hundred years old, turned out to be full of scrunched up/rolled up/creased and abused documents from my maternal grandparents, both born in the 1880's. My grandmother's birth certificate, some of which is written in Gaelic, shows her born October 13, 1886, in Clontonacally, district of Ballylesson, county Down, Ireland. The document measures 7 1/4" x 16 1/4" in size, a fair bit bigger than the wallet size ones I have.
I found a photo of my maternal great-grandmother, Eliza Jane Maxwell, and she looks a right matriarch, doesn't she?
With all the sorting and ironing, I had little time this week for studio play, apart from sporadic working on a piece of scrap that had a watercolour technique start. Given I know next to nothing about watercolour, that was pretty much a fail, but the followup has been fun.
And surely I'll get back to the creative side of the studio soon...I just have to clear all these pieces of memory first! Hope your week has been fun-filled and warm with the light of inspiration.
Thursday 29 February 2024
There have been some strange things...
... going on in the studio this past week, and I've twice emptied the recycle bin. It's a very big one too.
Thursday 22 February 2024
Another week...
...and more colour. Isn't life just grand?! I've been working sporadically since November on a 20 x 16" experimentally textured gallery wrap canvas and it's just about as much colour as the eyes can manage. You can see the start of it here if you'd like to check the beginning; the first photo below is the entirety - so far.